2016-17 Running NBA Thread

Those 2 additional losses.

 

Season gets longer for Kings ...

 

I remember both facts very well. I even saw that 72-10 team roll into SJ (Oakland Arena in remodel) and wipe out the Ws, IIRC Bulls were up 30 in the 2nd QTR and it was like the Beatles.

 

And also IIRC, Jordan sat out the last three quarters. The Warriors were that bad.

 

Bullshit. Jordan played48 a night and never rested, not like theses pussies today.

 

You're off by a year. That massacre happened the next season. Golden State actually hung with the 72-win team, leading going into the fourth despite Rony Seikaly, Joe Smith, B.J. Armstrong and Jerome Kersey playing real minutes.

 

I mean, the how is interesting, namely that Durant is probably the most efficent player in the league and Steph seems a little off.

But to just hold up raw numbers (and freaking scoring averages), seems like a pretty pointless exercise. Being better than last year on many (any?) fronts was unlikely because so many things went right. They have the best offense and defense in the league as of this moment. Their offense is better than the past two years, defense better than last year, worse than the year before.

 

And do you think that matches the expectations fostered by a swap of Durant for Barnes?

It was a good story.

 

But did he have to drag Kareem all over the court?

 

I think people are making too much of the "Steph is having an off year" stuff.

They added Durant. Someone's numbers were going to go down. I figured, like most people I think, that Klay's numbers would drop. It's been Steph's instead. It's not that he's not making shots -- it's that he's not handling the ball nearly as much as he has in the past. He's been adjusting for Durant far more than anyone else.

They're an interesting team right now. They're certainly more disjointed this season than they've been in the past, but they're still beating the hell out of people.

I thought going in they'd be really vulnerable to the Clippers. Then everyone on the Clippers broke.

 

It was the '96-97 year when the Ws were in SJ; which was the year after the 72 win Bulls; so still a spectacle when they rolled into town.

It was 35-8 after 1; ugh, amazing thing was I recall MJ was playing as hard in 2 qtr as the Finals; that to me was a sign of his true greatness.

 

Draymond owns Griffin; Ws own Clippers.